Chakzam or Chaksam or Jagsam means "iron bridge" in the Tibetan language (). It may refer to: *

Chushul Chakzam The Chushul Chakzam (), or simply Chakzam which literally means "iron bridge" in Standard Tibetan, was a suspension bridge that spanned the Yarlung Zangbo River, Yarlung Tsangpo river in modern-day Qüxü County near Lhasa, Tibet. It was built i ...

near Lhasa, one of the first bridges of its kind built by Thang Tong Gyalpo in 1430 * Jagsamka Township in

Riwoqê County Riwoche (; ) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chamdo in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The county lies in eastern Tibet and borders Qinghai province to the north. Riwoche is the name of the county, the cou ...

Luding County Luding County (), also known via its Tibetan name as Chagsam or Jagsam ) is a county located in the southeast of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province, China. Luding County covers an area of , and has a population of 86,234 ...

in Sichuan province, whose Tibetan name is Chagsam due to the iron bridge *

Thang Tong Gyalpo Thangtong Gyalpo () (1385 CE–1464 CE or 1361 CE–1485 CE), also known as Chakzampa, the "Iron Bridge Maker" (), Tsöndrü Zangpo "Excellent Persistence" (), and the King of the Empty Plain.Sarah Harding. Niguma, Lady of Illusion. Snow L ...

, also known as Chakzampa, a Bhutanese lama who built 58 iron bridges

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